NetCredit, an online loan marketplace that provides unsecured personal loans, audited the most popular books set in various countries using data from GoodReads. (Wait, what?) I’m supposed to write two… Read more »

I can clearly recall the day my local librarian handed me Judy Blume’s Forever…, a twinkle in her eye. Published in 1975, the novel charts a high school girl’s coming of… Read more »

Man, Penguin Random House is huge. Did you know it was huge? You might have missed that it controls over half of the publishing industry. Or if you read last… Read more »

Nothing in Ferguson has been resolved in the week since the grand jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson for shooting Michael Brown. But some brave librarians have stepped up to… Read more »

Earlier this week, we wrote that Amazon had lost Malcolm Gladwell over its nasty fight with the bestselling author’s publisher, Hachette. Over the past few days, Amazon has gained two… Read more »

At the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reports that the U.S. Justice Department “has gone back to the publishers asking about any recent pricing discussions they may have had… Read more »

The American Library Association just released their annual “State of America’s Libraries” report, and with it, their annual list of the country’s most challenged books. According to the ALA, the… Read more »

Last week, DreamWorks Studios purchased the rights to Rainbow Rowell’s young adult hit Eleanor & Park, Entertainment Weekly reports. The novel, which came out in February 2013, has spent much of the… Read more »